East Germany

It Better Rhyme: ‘The Stasi Poetry Circle’
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It Better Rhyme: ‘The Stasi Poetry Circle’

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 / 12 July 2022

When historian Philip Oltermann is handed the Stasi file for Uwe Berger, leader of the Stasi Poetry Circle, he gives the GDR’s dark history a poetic twist.

States of (Gay) Liberation in East Germany and West Germany
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States of (Gay) Liberation in East Germany and West Germany

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 / 11 July 2022

Samuel Clowes-Huneke’s decades-spanning, groundbreaking history of gay liberation in East Germany and West Germany challenges conventional assumptions about dictatorships and democracies.

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‘Legal Tender’: The Narrative of Love in East German Popular Culture

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 / 26 October 2010
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Red Cartoons: Animated Films from East Germany

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 / 3 March 2010
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The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (2006)

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 / 9 February 2007